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Individual mentoring
Individual mentoring is focussed on a particular opportunity or challenge related to tackling inequalities. This challenge will be personal to each leader, identified by them when self-nominating to be part of the programme.
An appropriate mentor is paired to each leader following a ‘Welcome and Onboarding’ call, to provide the lived or professional experience relevant to that challenge.
Mentoring typically involves, between the mentor and the mentee, a two-way interaction including discussion, exploration, listening and questioning. The majority of sessions are carried out virtually, however some of our mentees and mentors have met up in person if geography allows.
Available to system partners
Our coaching and mentoring offers are designed to support individuals, teams and groups. They’re fully funded by The National Lottery and available for leaders and board members of Sport England system partner organisations. You can check if your organisation is a system partner through the link below.
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Benefits
There are lots of benefits to be gained from accessing our individual mentoring programme.
- Mentors and their mentees often develop a strong professional relationship.
- Mentoring offers leaders support to see them through different challenges and barriers, enhancing their network, resilience and coping strategies.
- Mentoring can help to facilitate cross-cultural understanding and awareness.
- Mentoring provides a great opportunity for leaders to gain new knowledge and understanding, helping them to continue to learn, develop and grow as a leader.
- The support provided by our mentors can help you develop your influence and credentials as a leader.
What's involved?
Leaders who become mentees are asked to fully commit to the individual mentoring programme. This means making the most of the time given and expertise shared by their mentor. In addition, they are expected to be willing to take responsibility for managing the session arrangements with their mentor, preparing for sessions and undertaking agreed actions between sessions.
Our mentoring programme typically lasts for three-to-four months. Onboarded mentees will attend:
A 25-minute welcome call and 40-minute upskilling video. A mentee is matched to the appropriate mentor.
Following a “Getting to know each other” call, up to five (minimum of three) one-hour mentoring sessions.
A 90-minute reflective learning session with other mentors and mentees to share learnings from the mentoring experience.
Self-nominate
If you’re eligible (check if your organisation’s listed here) and individual mentoring sounds like it would be of benefit to you, we'd love to hear from you by clicking on the ‘self-nominate’ button below to complete the self-nomination form.
If you’re not currently eligible for mentoring, there’s lots of other ways we can support you. Please explore our further resources on our ‘About us’ page for more information.
If you have any further questions, please explore our FAQs page or get in touch with us by email at leadingthemovement@sportengland.org.
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